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It doesn't look hopeful. I can see the data on the drive, now I just need to get to it. Man, fingers crossed.

What program are you using? I reccomend Recuva, It's free and seems to work at least as well as the paid ones claim to.

Peorth wrote:What program are you using? I reccomend Recuva, It's free and seems to work at least as well as the paid ones claim to.

Recuva doesn't recognize the drive. In fact, nothing does until it's disconnected. That's what's frustrating the hell out of me. Recuva, Active Partition, even Windows Tools all freeze up or crash the second they search for drives - and disconnecting the drive unfreezes it and makes it show up for half a second before it disappears again.

It sees that there's a drive, and diskpart shows that it's the 470ish gigs its supposed to be, but nothing after.

If you've got another drive with enough free space (I'd use a spare external drive for this, although you can mount an NTFS partition), use a Linux live CD with ddrescue to create an image of the entire drive. Something like http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage should work.

Do I need to have Linux installed on the machine to use that?

EDIT: Also, yay. 20,000 views, and rtil has agreed to let me commission him

I recovered as much as I think I can from it. I only got about a third of the directory structure preserved, the rest is all in one gigantic folder with subfolders dependent on type and the names have been screwed up.

I feel much better than I did a few days ago. There are some programs I can't even find online anymore (abandonware, or really old file utilities that would work for thing) that I had backed up to CD, but the giant spindle got lost during one of the dozen moves over the last few years, so the laptop was the only thing that had them on it.

As far as it's relevant to the topic at hand, I haven't been able to find where it saved all my story info, but the program said it recovered that part of the drive successfully. I just need to hunt for it now.

The program was called M3 RAW Drive Recovery. Paid $50 for the license. Money well spent.

Backups backups backups. Go out and get an external harddrive and back everything you can up.

Peorth wrote:Backups backups backups. Go out and get an external harddrive and back everything you can up.

THOSE FAIL AS OFTEN AS THE INTERNAL ONES

At least for me.

Anyway, picked up a 2 TERABYTE today for cheap. Will be distributing backups on that.

Eurobeatjester wrote:

Peorth wrote:Backups backups backups. Go out and get an external harddrive and back everything you can up.

THOSE FAIL AS OFTEN AS THE INTERNAL ONES

At least for me.

Anyway, picked up a 2 gig today for cheap. Will be distributing backups on that.

Just remember a thing: When you have 1 Backup, that means you have none. If you have 2 backups that means you have 1, get it?

Eurobeatjester wrote:

Peorth wrote:Backups backups backups. Go out and get an external harddrive and back everything you can up.

THOSE FAIL AS OFTEN AS THE INTERNAL ONES

At least for me.

Anyway, picked up a 2 gig today for cheap. Will be distributing backups on that.

All my USB thumbdrives fail more than my harddrives

Oh damnit, I meant 2 TB.

This is what happens when you've been up for three days straight trying desperately to recover data without doing more damage.

There is nothing like the emotional rollercoaster of trying to recover a hard drive that crashed for no reason.

Okay, peeps. I don't want to be a dick, but when there start to be entire pages of chatter about personal ordeals, even if related to an ongoing fic, it starts to be too much.

Well-wishing and helpful advice can keep happening by PM. Up-to-the-minute progress reports can stop happening altogether. I'll cull the thread a bit, including this post, once things go back to what passes for normal around these parts.

Silentcook wrote:Okay, peeps. I don't want to be a dick, but when there start to be entire pages of chatter about personal ordeals, even if related to an ongoing fic, it starts to be too much.

Well-wishing and helpful advice can keep happening by PM. Up-to-the-minute progress reports can stop happening altogether. I'll cull the thread a bit, including this post, once things go back to what passes for normal around these parts.

No need to wait on my account. Found the files in the gigantic mess of them and they were completely intact. Crisis over.

Thank you for the help and well wishes, everyone

New art by rizalx on Deviantart:

Oh, that's really very sweet... although some of those planes look a bit angular on closer inspection. But still very much Saki.